Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got injured in her back somewhere , but er it was national news , I mean it was in The Mirror and all the papers and it became a , for a day or two it was er it was in everywhere , and the theory is that er it was this erm very very dry summer and a very very wet autumn and a bit of dry rot in the timbers somewhere , but it was it was another |
| 2 | I mean I was at the party but I did n't see anything suspicious . ’ |
| 3 | No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the |
| 4 | like you just , they just went , oh and but I think it 's finally , I mean I was in the |
| 5 | I mean you were at the meeting that 's why I 'm referring to you . |
| 6 | Me Aunty Linda 's not working either , like she did n't need the money but I mean he was on the dole for years me Uncle Ron . |
| 7 | I reali I realized it was on the same day Mark . |
| 8 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |
| 10 | And I checked we were on the causeway . |
| 11 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
| 12 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 13 | From the deadness of sound , I judged I was in the main roof-space . |
| 14 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 15 | I got such a shock I forgot he was behind the glass and thought he was going to shove his face right into mine . |
| 16 | I suspect he was in the Tower not because he could count the days but was privy to secrets which could rock thrones and topple crowns ! ’ |
| 17 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 18 | ‘ I accept I was in the wrong , ’ said the 31-year-old . |
| 19 | ‘ I hear you were on the box last night , ’ said small , cheerful voices in Dyson 's ear . |
| 20 | I hear you were at the Empire the other night ? |
| 21 | I know he was in the theatre . |
| 22 | Erm I I know it was in the context of a a question you posed to him that er if he had in fact er accepted the County Council 's housing figures er that would have been an appropriate hundred and twenty two hectares would have been appropriate er on the employment side . |
| 23 | Well whatever it was , I know it was in the forties . |
| 24 | I know it was in the paper |
| 25 | Then I discovered you were with the chief , being ticked off , ’ he said mischievously . |
| 26 | Will Hodge keep his place ( I assume he was in the line-up for the Sunderland match ) ? |
| 27 | But I remember I was on the way into Howard 's bungalow , and Bogie was coming out , having just seen my screen test , and he said , ‘ We 're going to have a lot of fun together . ’ |
| 28 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 29 | I heard you were in the er |
| 30 | No , but I reckon I was in the best year , sort of , for G C S E's this year and the year that 's just gone , were the best years cos they they do all the . |